But thou, Bethlehem Eph´ratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.
And after Abim´elech there arose to defend Israel Tola the son of Pu´ah, the son of Dodo, a man of Is´sachar; and he dwelt in Shamir in mount E´phra-im.
And he had thirty sons, and thirty daughters, whom he sent abroad, and took in thirty daughters from abroad for his sons. And he judged Israel seven years.
And it came to pass in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the side of mount E´phra-im, who took to him a concubine out of Beth–lehem–judah.
And the Lord said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Beth´lehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons.